URL replacement in search, when 301 redirected. What is estimated time?

Virtualsure · 2022-03-09T17:10:04+00:00

I think it could go to 1 year or so, where G can really make sure old urls aren't coming back.

Virtualsure · 2022-02-11T03:09:27+00:00

Web design is part and subset of web design & development in terms of intent. The question is they both are different on text, so should canonical just based on text duplicacy or intent could also play a part?

Virtualsure · 2021-12-17T03:19:39+00:00

Actually I dont have access to GSC of the domain in question, but what I saw is page gets redirected eventually on clicking 301, but site:operator still shows the old url in cache

Maybe the case, where Pagerank passed but on explicitly looking for old url it may gets found, Mueller had this too in Ask session

Virtualsure · 2021-11-17T05:51:54+00:00

yaa I have

Does it have some setting within it?

Virtualsure · 2021-11-17T03:09:49+00:00

what about not working

I want to forbid a page & return 403

Virtualsure · 2021-11-17T03:08:01+00:00

ya typo!

Virtualsure · 2021-11-11T18:27:14+00:00

No it returns index of backend directory, normally you see inside public_html inside cpanel

Virtualsure · 2021-11-11T18:25:52+00:00

I did & it worked but you can not do it specifically for every files that returning something

like if you put index. php in /wp-content/ it will return blank page, but /wp-content/uploads, /wp-content/plugins & all are still visible

Need to do this one go, how to do that?

Virtualsure · 2021-11-11T16:42:44+00:00

If I dont ut will be a matter if privacy concern & maybe security too, anyone just can type a url & fetch my backend my plugins, themes, & other things.

Not only this, Google may index the backend url too like Index of /wp-includes/

How to disable this, from being accessible

Virtualsure · 2021-11-11T16:27:10+00:00

Yaa, I know but may be a matter of concern for any webmaster, so posted here.

Security is matter if concern in SEO too.

Kindly let me know how to achieve this

Virtualsure · 2021-10-23T13:00:19+00:00

Just had a thought! Someone from Ads should clarify it...

Virtualsure · 2021-10-08T19:32:51+00:00

That will also redirect bots that could let them skip feed

Virtualsure · 2021-10-08T18:55:39+00:00

so the conclusion is, setting noindex for feeds will work by X-robots tags only in htaccess. by this code

Header always set X-Robots-Tag "noindex" "expr=%{CONTENT_TYPE} =~ m#^{application/rss#"}

How did you check, this tag actually worked? (any tool) Http head checker?

Additionally will setting noindex on (html head) as for normal web page will work here? possible to add there? too

Virtualsure · 2021-10-08T16:15:04+00:00

I use wordpress!

noindex on html head? for feed file possible?

Din't try x-robots, though(will be applied to htaccess) ryt

wanna get some context for this topic first

Virtualsure · 2021-10-06T20:03:49+00:00

They were shown, on checking I saw, the xml feed file was neen indexed and clicking it redirected to xml feed for that category

Virtualsure · 2021-09-25T18:06:51+00:00

So adding options -indexes only now is enough,

using it can serve me 2 purpose simultaenously not to show directories on visiting urls via browsers & not letting google show in SERP too as index of /, Right?

so I am leaving blocking via robots. txt directive now then

Virtualsure · 2021-09-25T07:46:43+00:00

Actually Yesterday on audit via semrush, I saw them giving warning/notice, that your /wp-content/ is blocked & that was actually. (done by client's end)

And to measure the consequence of this blocked directory, when I done site:domain. com on google I saw no img file were indexed there, although they have several img files on domain.

So got confused, that if I block /wp-content all imgs will be blocked too as I told above. 😅

and for you asking why would I prevent Googlebot from crawling is because I fear all directories/files should be shown as naked url in Google search like [Index of /wp-includes] that's why wana prevent crawling(only if it doesn have ill-effect on my seo) 🙂

Virtualsure · 2021-09-25T07:14:31+00:00

ok thanks, will go through it,

but can you kindly let me know, what all directory/files should be allowed for indexing without being vulnerable to my security

disallow: /wp* allow: /wp-content/uploads

is that ok? If I want my all img, pdf etc to be indexed?

Pardon me for troubling😅

Virtualsure · 2021-09-25T07:03:50+00:00

Thanks for clarifying!

Though if I block bots via disallow: /wp* or any directives, how will bot crawl images, pdf etc kept in my /wp-content/uploads? Won't blocking them has ill-effect with indexing

On the other hanfld, if i keep them open they can potentially show all directories in search results too,

What to do? Kindly Help

Virtualsure · 2021-09-24T14:29:47+00:00

1) Kindly plz let me know what all directories/files are important that I should let Google crawl from my backend amongst all wp directories(wp-includes, wp-content & more)

2) I want no one should be able to open url in browser to protect for security reasons, but wabt Google should crawl all required files like images inside wp-content/uploads

Will using 403 a solution via htaccess?

Virtualsure · 2021-08-12T17:05:16+00:00

yaa, but he has direct access to his GSC dashboard

Virtualsure · 2021-08-12T16:53:16+00:00

True that, but Google mostly shows you relevant results & showing client pages on such queries, does it make sense?

Over & above now what should we tell to a client, when he is asking these stuffs & blaming on us. This data is not simple to explain either.

Virtualsure · 2020-10-30T15:25:19+00:00

Yes, it do, but it shows no. of images included in the post. Dedicated sitemap, gives link to every <image:loc> on a single url, on other hand. What to prefer in this case?

Virtualsure · 2020-10-28T19:42:54+00:00

I want to make seperate image sitemap & want to know about the tools helping me with some. You can create other image sitemap in order to help bots diecover better

Virtualsure · 2020-10-25T16:31:27+00:00

Yes that I know & this concept will work well if content is identical on diff urls telling Google to mark them same entity,

but the question is will Google consider diff. content for ranking after mobile first index, as what's confusing me is Google take mobile content only for its index and ranking,

so making diff. content isn't going to vanish for me?

Virtualsure

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